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Steam News6 April 20251y ago

Quake's AI tech demo is the new worst way to play id's classic FPS

Microsoft has turned Quake 2 into a generative AI tech demo, and people do not like it.

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addedMicrosoft has turned Quake 2 into a generative AI tech demo, and people do not like it. Using the company's new videogame gen AI model Muse, which can make game visuals and assign controller actions, id's classic FPS has been turned into a brief, in-browser experience anyone can try. Despite its status as a tech demo, however, many aren't pleased with this version of Quake.
addedStep aside graphics cards, you can now run ray tracing on a CPU
changedOne of the greatest FPS games of the '90s just got remastered

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addedMicrosoft has turned Quake 2 into a generative AI tech demo, and people do not like it. Using the company's new videogame gen AI model Muse, which can make game visuals and assign controller actions, id's classic FPS has been turned into a brief, in-browser experience anyone can try. Despite its status as a tech demo, however, many aren't pleased with this version of Quake.
addedStep aside graphics cards, you can now run ray tracing on a CPU
changedOne of the greatest FPS games of the '90s just got remastered

Microsoft has turned Quake 2 into a generative AI tech demo, and people do not like it. Using the company's new videogame gen AI model Muse, which can make game visuals and assign controller actions, id's classic FPS has been turned into a brief, in-browser experience anyone can try. Despite its status as a tech demo, however, many aren't pleased with this version of Quake.

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